The tail command makes it easy to view log entries as they are written in real-time. Jack Wallen shows you how to make use of this indispensable tool.

Syslog is the network logging workhorse of Linux and Unix systems. It is both a communications protocol as well as a set of actual programs and libraries.

Configuring syslog Whenever syslogd, the syslog dæmon, receives a log message, it acts based on the message's type (or facility) and its priority. syslog 's mapping of actions to facilities and ...

Looks like: 1. We have planned on implementing SCOM 2007 for a while. 2. We have Envision for PCI systems, but now want to have it contain all events for all servers 3. We also have Linux servers ...

One dæmon you probably won't need to reconfigure but still should be aware of is klogd, Linux's kernel log dæmon. This dæmon is started automatically at boot time by the same script that starts the ...